Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 61:8
Judgment] i.e. justice. For burnt offering] RV 'with iniquity.' The reference is to the spoliation of which Israel is the victim.
Direct their work] RV 'give them their recompence.'
Judgment] i.e. justice. For burnt offering] RV 'with iniquity.' The reference is to the spoliation of which Israel is the victim.
Direct their work] RV 'give them their recompence.'
Verse Isaiah 61:8. _I HATE ROBBERY FOR BURNT-OFFERING_ - "Who hate rapine and iniquity"] The _Syriac_, and _Chaldee_ prefix the conjunction ו _vau_, instead of the preposition ב _beth_, to עולה _olah...
FOR I THE LORD LOVE JUDGMENT - That is, ‘I shall delight in rendering to my people what is right. It is right that they should enjoy my protection, and be favored with the tokens of my kindness. Lovin...
CHAPTER 61 The King, Jehovah's Messenger: His People and their Salvation Song 1. _Jehovah's Messenger and His work (Isaiah 61:1) _ 2. _His people a kingdom of priests and their work (Isaiah 61:6) _ 3...
The prophet now addresses the people directly. Men of other nations shall serve as labourers at their bidding and call them Yahweh's priests, or Servants of our God, recognising Yahweh as such. As a p...
JUDGMENT. justice. I HATE ROBBERY, &C. Showing that the sacrificial System was in operation at the time when this prophecy was given. DIRECT THEIR WORK. make their recompense. IN TRUTH. See note on...
Jehovah's righteousness demands this reversal of the present relations of Israel and the heathen. _I hate robbery &c._ Render with R.V. I HATE ROBBERY WITH INIQUITY, AND I WILL GIVE THEM THEIR RECOMPE...
FOR I THE LORD LOVE JUDGMENT, &C.— _For I the Lord love justice: I hate stolen things in an offering; and I will give them their reward faithfully, and I will make with them,_ &c. The reader is still...
3. FAME TEXT: Isaiah 61:8-11 8 For I, Jehovah, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. 9 And...
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. FOR I THE LORD LOVE JUDGMENT - justice, whic...
61:8 judgment, (a-5) Or 'justice.'...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 61 This chapter shows how God will achieve his great purpose for all the...
The *Lord loves *justice because he himself acts fairly (see Psalms 105:7). He works for *justice for all who suffer pain from enemies (see Proverbs 16:11 and Isaiah 45:21). • But the opposite is als...
The *covenant that God made with Israel included his promise of favourable actions for his people (see Isaiah 44:3 and Isaiah 65:23). Other nations noticed. It changed their opinion both of the *Jews...
I HATE ROBBERY FOR BURNT OFFERING. — The Authorised Version follows the Vulg, and Luther, but the words, commonly applied as condemning the formal sacrifices of the wicked, do not fit in with the cont...
כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֹהֵ֣ב מִשְׁפָּ֔ט שֹׂנֵ֥א...
“THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD” Isaiah 61:1-11 _Messiah's mission_, Isaiah 61:1-3. At Nazareth our Lord applied these words to Himself. Let us care for the outcasts as He did; but to do so, we nee...
Passing from the description of material prosperity, the prophecy describes the inner secret, namely, spiritual realization. This description opens with a new declaration of the Servant of the Lord. T...
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate (q) robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. (q) I will not receive their offerings w...
_Holocaust. The pagans saw such things were improper victims. (Eusebius, præp. iv. 14.) --- Septuagint, "hate unjust plunder." (Haydock) --- Therefore will I subject the strangers to you, ver. 5. ---...
This verse seems to have no immediate connection with what went before, nor with what follows. I find, in an old Bible, the translation rendered somewhat different; For I the Lord, which love right, a...
8._For I Jehovah love judgment. _He not only confirms what he promised in the name of the Lord, but likewise exhorts the Jews to repent, and shews whence they ought to expect salvation, and what and h...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 61 AND 62. As Chapter s 50-53 presented Christ in His sufferings, chapter 61 exhibits Him in the full grace of His Person concerned in the blessing of Israel....
FOR I THE LORD LOVE JUDGMENT,.... To do that which is right and just himself, and to see it done by others, and therefore he will right the wrongs of his people; and whereas the Jews, though they have...
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. Ver. 8. _For I the Lord love judgment, &c._]...
_For I the Lord love judgment_ I will do them right, for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. _I hate robbery for burnt- offerings_ I hate all things gotten by injustice, though the...
For I, the Lord, love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering, because Jehovah is a God who loves equity and hates robbery and unrighteousness in every form, and, or "therefore," I WILL DIRECT THE...
THE LORD'S YEAR OF JUBILEE. The chapter opens with a powerful description of the office of the Servant of Jehovah, of the Messiah Himself....
4-9 Promises are here made to the Jews returned out of captivity, which extend to all those who, through grace, are delivered out of spiritual thraldom. An unholy soul is like a city that is broken d...
FOR I THE LORD LOVE JUDGMENT: q.d. They have suffered a great deal of hardship under their enemies, and I will do them right; for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. Or he gives a...
Isaiah 61:8 LORD H3068 love H157 (H8802) justice H4941 hate H8130 (H8802) robbery H1498 offering H5930 direct...
For I, Yahweh, love judgment, I hate robbery with a burnt offering, And I will give them their recompense in truth, And I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed will be known...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,_ You know who it is that speaks these words, our Lord Jesus himself. Isaiah 61:1. Because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto t...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me;_ These are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ the prophet, looking forward to the tune of his coming into the world, put them into his mouth; and...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the ca...
CONTENTS: Two advents of Christ in one view. Kingdom blessing after the day of vengeance. Israel's restoration. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: After the day of Christ's vengeance,...
Isaiah 61:1. _The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me._ Here the Redeemer appears clothed with humanity, and invested with all the high offices of our redemption. Jehovah gave not the Spirit by measure...
_The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me_ THE SPEAKER; PROBABLY THE SERVANT OF JONAH Who is the speaker here? The Targum prefaces the passage with the words, “The prophet says,” and, except a few, all...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 61:1 The Messiah will preach into existence his new, liberated people, who will pray into existence his new, redeemed world. ⇐...
SECTION VIII.—SOLILOQUY OF THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, WHO PROMISES GLORY AND PROSPERITY TO JERUSALEM (Isaiah 61:1;...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 61:1-11. We are told in the New Testament that the Old Testament prophets many times wrote of things that they did not really understand. Earnestly desiring,...
1 Samuel 15:21; 2 Samuel 23:5; 2 Thessalonians 3:5; Amos 5:21;...
Love judgment — I will do them right, for I love justice in myself, and in them that practise it. Robbery — All things gotten by injustice, though it be for sacrifice. Direct — I will lead them so, th...